0:11 [Music]
0:14 ladies and gentle sores welcome to
0:16 assessing survival the series where we
0:19 take creatures from both our world and
0:20 fiction placing them in different
0:22 periods throughout history as well as
0:24 some Fantastical settings from outside
0:27 reality in today's episode we will be
0:29 taking Raptors more accurately dromeosaur
0:30 dromeosaur
0:32 and placing them in the Ice Age the PTO
0:35 scene Epoch over 2 million years ago
0:37 we'll explore how some of the most
0:39 advanced predators of the Mesozoic shape
0:41 up against some of the most fearsome and
0:43 impressive animals that the new dynasty
0:46 of mammals has to offer I'll be using
0:48 four different categories to assess
0:50 their ability to survive these scores
0:51 will then be added up for a final
0:54 assessment Score 1 to three being that
0:56 they are unlikely to or simply cannot
0:58 survive four to six being they can
1:00 survive but with great to moderate
1:02 difficulty and more than seven being
1:04 they will survive with little to no
1:06 difficulty those categories are
1:08 environment suitability strengths and
1:12 weaknesses prey items and competition in
1:14 the latter half of the video we will
1:16 speculate on how our Raptors May evolve
1:18 to better fit their new environment
1:20 before we get into those categories
1:21 though I'd like to take just a minute to
1:23 explain some things the title of this
1:25 video is a little vague and other than
1:27 it being the title most likely to be
1:29 clicked on and shown to people browsing
1:32 on YouTube I left it this way so that I
1:33 could speak on which dromeosaur I'd like
1:36 to use and it came down to three choices
1:40 for me bosar Raptor danicus and Utah
1:42 raptor these three Raptors cover the
1:44 vast range of sizes seen in geosaurus
1:46 throughout the Cretaceous My First
1:48 Choice was of course Utah raptor the
1:50 largest of the family these guys would
1:52 clearly do much better than the others
1:54 given their size they were larger than
1:56 the vast majority of their wouldbe Mamon
1:58 competition they could reach Heights of
2:01 2 m or 6 and half ft lengths of up to 6
2:04 M or 20 ft and weigh well over 1,000 lb
2:07 or around 500 kg they're also more used
2:09 to the dry and open environments that
2:11 dominate the place of scene we already
2:13 know these guys would do pretty well at
2:14 least in terms of their matchups against
2:17 mammals of the era so for the sake of
2:19 making things interesting I decided to
2:21 not go with Utah raptor then I looked at
2:24 velocar Raptor definitely the most
2:26 famous of the dromeosaur but also one of
2:29 the smallest Velociraptor was at most
2:31 half a meter tall just over 6 ft or
2:34 under 2 m long and weighed no more than
2:37 20 kg or 45 lb they also lived in
2:39 Cretaceous Mongolia an area that would
2:41 be extraordinarily hot and arid compared
2:43 to the PTO scene so for those reasons I
2:45 decided not to go with Velociraptor
2:48 either and finally I came to danicus who
2:50 lies between the other two in terms of
2:53 size the highest emphasis on highest of
2:55 estimates for dinus put them at a height
2:59 of 3 ft or under 1 m a length of 3.4 M
3:03 or or 11 ft long and almost 90 kg or 200
3:05 lb this puts them at a very similar size
3:07 to many of the predators in the place of
3:10 scene such as wolves and some big cats
3:11 also out of all the dinosaurs in the
3:14 dromeosaur family danicus has the most
3:16 compelling evidence for pack hunting
3:17 Behavior which is something I'm going to
3:20 explain further in the video so don't go
3:21 smacking that keyboard just yet I
3:23 decided to go with danicus because I
3:25 think it'll give us the most interesting
3:27 survival assessment as well as the most
3:30 interesting spec Evo later on again we
3:31 will be using their most robust
3:33 estimates for their size and weight all
3:34 three of these Raptors lived in
3:36 ecosystems that were much much hotter
3:39 than the pine which brings me to my next
3:41 point the title also says we'll be
3:43 placing them in the Ice Age and while
3:46 the pene is in fact the Ice Age people
3:48 often think of this ice age as the
3:50 entire Earth being covered in snow and
3:53 ice for millions of years this is simply
3:55 not true on average during the last
3:57 glacial maximum ice sheets and glaciated
4:00 areas extended up to approximately 2,000
4:03 M or 3200 km from polar regions towards
4:05 the equator equatorial regions though
4:07 cooler than today did not experience the
4:09 harsh conditions of the Ice Age I will
4:11 not be placing them directly on these
4:13 ice sheets but we're still going to be
4:15 putting them pretty far north where they
4:16 will still experience harsh Winters but
4:18 see some solace in the changing of
4:20 Seasons I'll be placing them in North
4:23 America and gee big surprise madley is
4:25 putting an animal in North America
4:28 again Dirty Bastard you've done it again
4:30 I know I know but this time I have a
4:32 better reason for it I thought about
4:33 placing them broadly in the northern
4:35 hemisphere but something happened
4:37 between North America and Siberia around
4:40 20,000 years ago and if you don't
4:42 already know what that is don't worry
4:44 again I'll explain more later on so yes
4:46 the title is a little vague but hey you
4:54 you the place to scene Epoch was
4:57 characterized by repeated glacial and
4:59 interglacial Cycles during the peak of
5:01 glacial periods also known as the
5:03 glacial Maxima average temperatures in
5:04 the northern hemisphere were
5:06 significantly colder than today it's
5:07 estimated that global temperatures were
5:11 about 5 to 10° C 9 to 18° F cooler than
5:14 present day averages this is a sharp
5:16 contrast to the Cretaceous Period
5:17 estimates for global temperatures then
5:22 were around 6 to 14° C 11 to 25° F
5:24 warmer than today donus lived in North
5:27 America between 145 to 99 million years
5:30 ago and at that time the en enironment
5:32 which it lived in was very similar to
5:34 modern day Louisiana these areas were
5:35 marked with flood Plains and river
5:38 valleys and very dense forest which is
5:39 very different from the northern
5:41 hemisphere in the pine which was largely
5:44 made up of open Mammoth step and boreal
5:46 forest I'll put it bluntly if we put
5:48 danicus into the glacial maximums of the
5:50 Ice Age they're not going to last even a
5:52 year such a drastic change in
5:54 temperature and environment would be too
5:56 much to handle so to give them a
5:57 fighting chance we're going to be
5:59 placing them at the beginning of an
6:00 interglacial period so they can have the
6:03 time to adapt to the Colder Weather and
6:05 more open environment before The Long
6:08 Winter comes stocks RS right eventually
6:12 winter is coming however even if we do
6:13 this it will still be much colder than
6:16 the Cretaceous they only saving grace is
6:18 their size and their feathers large
6:19 warm-blooded animals tend to do better
6:21 in colder regions as their Mass helps
6:23 them retain body heat and frigid
6:25 temperatures and given our larger
6:28 estimates of up to 90 kg or 200 lb gicus
6:30 are quite heavy for their Dimensions
6:32 well this with feathers that cover most
6:33 of their body they may be better
6:36 equipped than we think but still the
6:37 DraStic environment change doesn't give
6:39 me much confidence taking their score
6:42 down quite a bit environment suitability
6:51 10 this is where donus can make up for
6:53 some loss points in the last category
6:55 theasaurus are some of the most
6:56 well-armed predators in the fossil
6:58 record with just about every part of
7:00 their body being capable of inflicting
7:03 damage ganicus is estimated to have a
7:05 bite force that is either on par or
7:07 greater than that of a spotted hyena
7:08 which is supported by the presence of
7:10 pretty well-defined teeth marks from
7:12 danicus left on the bones of their prey
7:15 animals there are of course their iconic
7:17 large sickle-shaped claws on both feet
7:19 seen in all dromeosaur it is not
7:21 believed that most dromeosaur use their
7:23 sickle claw primarily for slashing pre
7:25 items simulations of this Behavior using
7:28 scans of their CLE claws did not yield
7:30 results that would suggest it was used
7:32 for this purpose rather they are
7:34 believed to have been used in tandem
7:35 with their claws and for liims for
7:37 pinning prey items much like modern
7:39 Birds of Prey they may also have been
7:41 used for climbing or holding on to the
7:43 side of very large prey items like
7:45 tenontosaurus something that they could
7:46 definitely replicate in their new
7:48 environment further suggesting this is
7:50 their feathers which are believed to
7:52 have been very long on their forelimbs
7:54 these feathers would help stabilize them
7:56 in intense combat situations their long
7:59 flexible Tails also covered in Long
8:01 feathers would act as a Rudder during
8:03 Pursuits speaking of pursuit these
8:05 Raptors may not have been as fast as the
8:06 movies would lead you to believe the
8:08 length and build of their leg bones
8:11 suggests that danicus was not so fast
8:12 believed to be slower than modern-day
8:15 ostriches more reasonable estimates for
8:17 the speed of donus place them around 40
8:20 km/ hour or 25 mph though though they
8:22 wouldn't be as fast as say wolves or
8:24 lions they could certainly run for
8:25 longer than them this is because
8:27 dinosaurs utilize unidirectional
8:30 breathing when Birds dinos
8:32 and crocodilians breathe in the air is
8:34 pulled into air sacks and then into
8:35 their lungs when they breathe out which
8:37 means that their lungs are constantly
8:40 receiving fresh oxygen rich air unlike
8:42 mammals who breathe directly in and out
8:44 of their lungs this gives therapod
8:47 dinosaurs like dinus incredible stamina
8:48 likely allowing them to maintain their
8:50 top speed for much longer than many
8:53 mammals can contrary to what films like
8:55 Jurassic Park had led people to believe
8:57 hack hunting dromeosaur is not a widely
8:59 agreed upon Theory amongst palean to
9:01 ologist but the intelligent groups of
9:04 raptors seen in media are inspired by
9:06 multiple findings of donus skeletons
9:09 around skeletons of tenontosaurus and
9:11 Iguanodon and ornithopod that would be
9:13 far too large for a single danicus to
9:15 take down other evidence that supports
9:16 this behavior is the discovery of
9:18 footprints from these Raptors that
9:20 indicate a group moving together this
9:22 suggests that danicus may have indeed
9:24 traveled with one another rather than
9:26 converging only to gang up on prey like
9:29 kodo dragons though we don't know for
9:30 sure and it may be discovered otherwise
9:32 in the future this video we will be
9:34 going with the assumption that danicus
9:37 lived in hunted and packs but not go so
9:39 far as to say they were as sophisticated
9:41 as wolves or lions I'm sure I'll see
9:43 plenty of you yapping about that in the
9:45 comments so I made sure to provide all
9:46 my sources in the description below
9:48 there's a common misconception that
9:50 because these dromeosaur had hollow
9:51 bones they would have been incredibly
9:53 light and brittle this is simply not
9:56 true most dinosaurs including large Sor
9:59 pods and even T-Rex had hollow bones
10:01 this works with their robust circulatory
10:02 and respiratory systems to deliver
10:04 oxygen throughout their bodies flying
10:07 birds today have delicate hollow bones
10:08 because they need to be light in order
10:11 to achieve flight danicus as far as we
10:13 know did not fly danicus and other
10:16 dromeosaur had binocular vision much
10:18 like birds of prey and their distant
10:20 cousin the Tyrannosaurus Rex this of
10:22 course suggests that they had incredible
10:23 Vision that allowed them to be skilled
10:25 Hunters though though they may suffer
10:27 from a deficit in speed and the
10:29 environment will be very unfamiliar
10:31 amiliar and cold for them they make up
10:32 for a good amount of it with their
10:34 incredible Arsenal group behavior and
10:36 robust build bringing their score up for
10:39 this category quite a bit strengths and
10:48 10 plac North America has a pretty
10:49 diverse list of animals that are
10:52 potential pre items for danicus the
10:54 easiest and most likely common prey for
10:57 donus would be smaller animals rodents
11:00 birds peckies and small ulet really
11:02 anything their size or smaller are prime
11:04 targets it's believed danicus prayed on
11:09 zephyrosaurus a small dog-sized the the
11:11 thesaur more frequently than
11:13 tenontosaurus small mammals such as
11:15 rabbits and peckies fall within a
11:17 manageable Speed and Agility range
11:19 fornicus however deer and especially
11:21 Caribou would be much faster but the
11:24 Raptor's Advanced respiratory system
11:25 would likely allow them to run these
11:28 animals down over great distances which
11:30 brings us to more mids herbivores
11:31 animals that are going to be closer in
11:36 size to tonasa Moose bison elk camelops
11:39 horses and glyptodon moose and Elk as
11:41 well as wild horses will be the easiest
11:43 among these but not a cakewalk moose and
11:45 Elk male or female can be incredibly
11:47 aggressive even without warning kicks
11:49 from these animals could seriously
11:51 injure a danicus just as it would a
11:52 feline or other predator of the same
11:55 size even these larger ulet are much
11:57 faster than danicus and will have to be
11:58 hunted with Ambush and coordinated
12:01 tactics or ran down over great distances
12:03 something that may be harder with horses
12:05 which are known to run at full speed for
12:07 up to 3 miles the same goes for bison
12:09 and camelops who were even larger and
12:12 more robust than their modern relatives
12:13 if the Raptors can avoid direct attacks
12:15 from these animals they may be able to
12:17 take them down much quicker than wolves
12:20 or hyenas danicus could latch the side
12:21 or back of these animals using their
12:24 sickle Claws and strong hands and
12:25 inflict serious wounds with both
12:28 scratches and Bone crushing bites then
12:30 there's the glyptodon the mammal
12:31 Kingdom's attempt at the ankylosaur
12:33 build even the most fearsome predators
12:35 of the Ice Age likely had a lot of
12:36 trouble trying to take down one of these
12:39 guys if danicus is going to take them
12:41 down it will have to be by targeting
12:43 between their armored plates or by
12:45 exhausting them enough to make doing so
12:47 easier glyptodon had a pretty robust
12:49 tail lined with thick bony spikes and
12:52 its cousin the dodicis another glyptodon
12:54 even had a segisaurus likee spike tail
12:56 that would surely be a familiar threat
12:58 to the Raptors and finally we have the
13:01 MEAP that the ice age is known for
13:04 mammoths macadons and the giant ground
13:07 sloth danicus doesn't have a great match
13:09 up against any of these large animals
13:11 but neither do many of the carnivores of
13:13 the time even the strongest of predators
13:15 couldn't do anything to healthy adults
13:17 of these animals rather they would take
13:19 advantage of poorly guarded young and
13:21 sick individuals let's talk about the
13:24 ground sloth first specifically aium the
13:26 largest giant ground sloth present in
13:28 North America slightly larger than the
13:30 closely related ated megatherium in size
13:33 reaching an overall length of 6 M or 20
13:37 ft and a height of 2 m 6.6 ft while on
13:40 all fours and possibly up to 4 M or 13
13:42 ft when it reared up on its hind legs
13:45 weighing anywhere between 4,000 to 6500
13:49 kg 8700 to 14,000 lb they of course had
13:51 the ability to rear up on their hind
13:53 legs and swipe at their opponents this
13:55 would have made them incredibly
13:57 intimidating making danicus unlikely to
14:00 attack them the ARA I's machete sized
14:02 claws would make quick work of a Raptor
14:04 a large group of donus may be able to
14:06 take on a very sick adult but it is
14:08 probably most often young individuals
14:11 that danicus will be praying on now of
14:13 course let's move on to mammoths and
14:15 mastadons much like with the giant
14:17 ground sloth healthy adults are out of
14:19 the question females will be traveling
14:21 in herds and males will be too large to
14:23 even consider it is again rather sick
14:24 and young individuals that will be
14:27 targeted their tusks are very curved and
14:29 swoop down quite low better suited to be
14:31 swung around like clubs rather than
14:33 stabbing like Spears depending on which
14:35 species Mammoth tusks can be anywhere
14:38 between 3 and 4.5 M long a swing from
14:40 these tusks from even a sick Mammoth
14:42 could shatter the bones of any predator
14:44 dinosaur or mammal feline predators of
14:46 the time like the American lion and
14:48 homotherium among others also didn't
14:50 have great match up against adult
14:52 mammoths or macadons but I believe that
14:54 danicus may be just a little bit better
14:56 at Clinging On to the side of large pre
14:59 items sickle claw strong hands and St
15:00 stabilizing feathers of danicus might
15:02 make them better at it than their feline
15:04 contemporaries but they may not be able
15:06 to do as much damage to them due to
15:08 their lighter build again it would only
15:10 be sick or young individuals that they
15:11 would realistically have any chance
15:13 against healthy adults would be too much
15:16 for them to handle in fact if you'd like
15:17 to know a little bit more about mammoths
15:19 you can check out the video on the woly
15:20 mammoth on my channel link is in the
15:22 description below or you can head over
15:25 to the prime eval post playlist ganicus
15:26 gets a pretty good score in this
15:28 category because their Weaponry size and
15:30 hunting strategies make them a pretty
15:32 powerful force in this new ecosystem
15:33 they make up for their slower speed with
15:36 their unidirectional respiratory system
15:38 which presumably would allow them to run
15:40 at top speed for much longer than
15:42 mammals but they'd have a rough time
15:43 with larger prey items like mammoths and ground
15:45 ground
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15:55 10 donus will be faced with a lot of
15:56 different competition throughout the
15:58 place of scene that all present
15:59 different challenges these Predators
16:02 include the short-faced bear pomum
16:05 milodon Fatalis the American lion as
16:07 well as wolves direwolves and Cave
16:09 hyenas let's start with the short-face
16:12 bear arotas simus was the second largest
16:14 Mamon land predator in history only
16:16 beaten by its South American cousin
16:19 Arium arctus is believed to have weighed
16:23 1,19 kg or 2246 lb and could stand tall
16:26 as 11 ft or almost 3 and 1/2 M on their
16:28 hind legs this bear was a force to be
16:30 reckoned with with on the mammoth step
16:32 danicus would make use of any carcasses
16:34 the Bears leave behind and vice versa
16:35 the giant bear could likely use its
16:38 imposing size and power to scare off
16:40 packs of danicus from their own kills in
16:42 terms of territorial disputes it would
16:44 be mixed both of these animals would
16:46 have a mix of open plane and Forest
16:48 within their borders and would defend it
16:49 pretty fiercely don't get me wrong I
16:51 think a short-face bear could probably
16:53 take on a whole pack of danicus but at
16:55 what cost this is something that the
16:57 bear already dealed with when it comes
16:59 to big cats or direwolves the short-face
17:01 bear just doesn't have the numbers like
17:02 many of the other predators in the place
17:04 to scene just like wolves and grizzly
17:06 bears I think there would be a lot more
17:08 avoidance than direct conflict speaking
17:10 of wolves let's now talk about wolves
17:12 and direwolves while we now know that
17:15 direwolves or anos dius aren't really
17:18 wolves in terms of philogyny they were
17:20 very similar with th wolves being larger
17:21 by a small margin for the sake of
17:23 Simplicity I'll just be referring to
17:25 both of them as wolves and ranking them
17:27 together I believe wolves will be the
17:29 most common and intense competition for
17:31 our Raptors they'll hunt the same Proms
17:33 and fight over carcasses and territory
17:35 fossil evidence of donus existing in
17:36 groups indicates to us that they
17:38 probably didn't live in very large
17:40 groups maybe three to five individuals
17:42 give or take wolves however regularly
17:45 form packs of 8 to 12 individuals but
17:48 packs of 20 to 30 have occurred the
17:49 Wolves may not be as robust as the
17:51 dromeosaur but they certainly have the
17:53 advantage of numbers groups of donus may
17:55 try to take advantage of smaller wolf
17:57 packs following them as they hunt
17:58 animals they're better equipped to chase
18:00 down like elk and Caribou swooping in
18:02 and using their size and numbers to
18:04 bully the pack from the corpse and the
18:06 same would go for larger packs of wolves
18:08 against smaller packs of danicus it's a
18:10 similar situation with the cave hyena
18:12 very similar to today's spotted hyena in
18:14 both size and behavior in fact I believe
18:17 they're the same species the cave hyena
18:19 also roamed the mammoth step as both an
18:21 active Hunter and scavenger so I won't
18:22 speak too much on that but it's very
18:24 similar to The Wolf matchup and then
18:26 there are of course the big cats the
18:29 American lion homotherium and the ever
18:31 so famous Smilodon most of these big
18:33 cats had a very similar lifestyle living
18:35 in Prides much like African lions do
18:37 today they likely all had their own
18:39 lifestyle and preferred prey but their
18:40 territory definitely had a lot of
18:42 overlap gicus will have to find a way to
18:44 wedge itself into this situation
18:47 panthera atrox or the American lion was
18:49 the largest big cat that ever roamed the
18:51 Americas they're believed to be about
18:53 25% larger than their cousin the African
18:55 Lion panthera Leo they measured
18:59 approximately 1.6 to 2.5 M or 5 5.3 to
19:02 8.2 ft with adult males weight estimates
19:06 ranging from 230 to 360 kg or 500 to 800
19:08 lb the largest of specimens reaching
19:11 almost 1,000 lb even with our most
19:13 robust size for dyus they have no
19:15 business taking on the American Lions
19:17 one-on-one or in a group fight they're
19:21 far too large madon Fatalis though
19:22 smaller than that southern cousin
19:24 Smilodon populator was still a very
19:26 large Predator estimates for their size
19:30 give them a body length of 1.6 to 2.2 M
19:33 5.2 to 7.2 ft and a weight of 160 to 280
19:37 kg or 350 to 620 lbs researchers are
19:39 still torn on whether or not Smilodon
19:42 lived in groups with some believing they
19:43 lived much like lions and others
19:45 believing they were a more solitary
19:47 Ambush Hunter like a tiger if the former
19:50 is true it's the same situation as with
19:52 the American lion but if the latter is
19:54 true dinus could manage to bully alone
19:57 Smilodon away from its kill or territory
19:59 in a one-on-one fight between these two
20:01 Smilodon definitely wins finally there's
20:03 homotherium these guys had a more
20:05 slender build with longer limbs that
20:06 suggested they were Better Built for
20:09 Pursuit on open ples and other cats they
20:11 lived farther north than the other big
20:13 cats reaching up to Alaska and crossing
20:15 over to Eurasia estimates for their size
20:18 give them a body length of 1.1 to 1.4 M
20:22 3.6 to 4.6 ft and a weight of 150 to 250
20:26 kg 330 to 550 lb despite being the
20:28 lightest of the three big cats we've
20:29 mentioned the same applies here
20:31 aetherium Prides would be no less a
20:34 threat than the other cats denicas might
20:36 f a bit better in a one-on-one fight
20:38 with these guys but not by much I think
20:40 any of these felines take down a donus
20:42 and in a group situation I think the
20:45 donus simply flee because though they
20:47 may have good weapons at their disposal
20:49 the pure mass and power behind the big
20:51 cats is just too much for them to handle
20:52 so though they have a good match up
20:54 against wolves hyenas and some of the
20:56 smaller felines the short-faced bear the
20:58 American Lion and the saber-tooth cats
21:01 would remain as the apex predators and a
21:03 threat to the Raptors now before I give
21:05 this category a score I'm going to talk
21:07 about the elephant or the hairless ape
21:09 in the room humans Homo sapiens didn't
21:11 cross the bearing straight into North
21:13 America until close to the very end of
21:15 the place of scene between 15 and 20,000
21:18 years ago this is why I plac them in
21:20 North America specifically rather than
21:22 Eurasia or just the Northern Hemisphere
21:24 broadly even early humans are
21:26 overpowered and I don't think donus will
21:28 have any better of a matchup against
21:30 them than they do with big cats lucky
21:32 for the Raptors they have a little over
21:34 2 million years to establish themselves
21:36 in the environment so we'll touch on
21:37 humans in the final segment of this
21:42 video competition score 4 out of
21:44 10 which brings us to our survival assessment
21:46 assessment
21:49 score 5.5 out of
21:52 10 danicus though it may be well
21:54 equipped to carve itself a decent niche
21:57 in the trophic systems of the pene just
21:59 isn't suited for the climate even in an
22:00 interglacial period they would be very
22:03 chilly in North America and will either
22:05 have to move further south or eat a lot
22:06 more food to compensate for the sharp
22:09 drop in temperature and though danicus
22:11 isn't unfamiliar with large Predators
22:13 they are not familiar with so many
22:15 predators that live in groups like lions
22:17 hyenas and wolves if Raptors did live in
22:18 packs they would have been the only
22:20 predators that did so in their
22:21 environment competition from mammals
22:24 would be incredibly Steep and intense
22:25 they'll need to adapt quickly and
22:28 effectively in order to survive [Music]
22:37 coldblooded Killers pikus notos the cold
22:40 Southern claw and cryon nikus arctus the
22:43 northern cold claw in my opinion the
22:45 most logical and reasonable progression
22:47 of donus evolution in place to see North
22:49 America is to maintain their current
22:51 body plan and maximize a handful of
22:53 traits that would allow them to survive
22:55 and compete more effectively cryon nikus
22:58 are descendants of these adapted donus
22:59 that move moved further south towards
23:01 the warmer regions at the end of the
23:03 interglacial period here they became
23:04 more successful in a mix of both open
23:06 and forested environments they compete
23:08 with animals like lions wolves and
23:10 saber-tooth cats they became much larger
23:13 the cryon Nikas are on average about 4 M
23:16 or just over 13t long and weigh about
23:19 140 kg or 300 lb making them a fair bit
23:20 bigger than their ancestors they also
23:22 have become much faster topping out at
23:26 28 mph or almost 45 kmph they can
23:28 maintain these speeds for up to 5 miles
23:30 straight which allows them to run down
23:32 endurance-based animals like
23:35 horses surprise [ __ ] also to
23:37 better compete with other Predators
23:39 pricus has a more sophisticated social
23:41 structure consisting of a leading mating
23:43 pair and their offspring sometimes
23:45 joined by their siblings or parents
23:46 these groups are called casts the cast
23:48 of prion nikus can be anywhere between
23:50 four and 10 individuals depending on
23:52 what time of year it is how many
23:54 offspring they have and what resources
23:56 are available to them pledgeling cryon
23:57 nikus will stay with their cast until
23:59 they reach maturity where males will go
24:01 off to find females and form their own
24:03 cast and females will stay with their
24:05 own until a male comes to them males
24:07 will Court young females by displaying a
24:10 spread of bright red feathers underneath
24:12 their wings even if the young female
24:14 approves is actually up to her parent to
24:16 also approve of the young male and allow
24:18 her to leave the preferred prey items
24:20 are horses though they do also hunt deer
24:23 camelops tapier and occasionally young
24:26 or sick megatherium or madon pikus also
24:29 has a northern subspecies pikus arctos
24:31 or a bit larger on average have darker
24:34 skin and snow white feathers they split
24:35 off from the southern cryonic at the
24:37 beginning of the next interglacial
24:38 period traveling back North and
24:40 remaining there they are more or less
24:42 the same in terms of Lifestyle but hunt
24:45 animals like Caribou bison and young or
24:47 sick woly mammoths when humans crossed
24:48 over the bearing straight they began to
24:50 hunt many of the animals that cryon
24:52 nikus relied on as the ice sheets were
24:53 seeded and many of these animals went
24:56 extinct pikus became less and less
24:58 common by the time European settlers
25:00 arrived in North America these strange
25:02 pack hunting birds were only known to
25:04 them by stories natives would tell some
25:05 tribes say to this day they live in
25:07 remote mountains and Forest and many
25:09 people living on the Alaskan Frontier
25:11 and Northern Canadian territories claim
25:13 to see large dinosaur-like creatures
25:16 stalking the landscape in far off
25:20 flurries ta kondaur the fendulus Numa or
25:21 the Striking toe of the
25:24 Plains mactus is a descendant of tanicus
25:26 that has evolved a much larger sickle
25:29 claw and much more robust and Powerful
25:31 legs which they use in tandem to kick
25:33 and slash open the throats and vitals of
25:35 pre itams they have grown to be
25:37 considerably larger than their ancestors
25:40 reaching about 3 m or 10 ft tall 16 ft
25:43 or nearly 5 m long and weighing a
25:47 substantial 820 lb or 370 kg they behave
25:48 quite differently from their cousin the
25:50 cryon nikus being solitary for most of
25:52 their lives only coming together to
25:54 fight for mating rights and then
25:56 subsequently to raise their young it
25:58 will hack anything from Lions to
26:00 mammoths to other falus if they feel
26:01 like they are a threat to their
26:03 territory I'm sure you can see the
26:05 similarity between them and Terror Birds
26:07 falus is not only much larger than they
26:09 were but also have not forgone their
26:11 claws for stubby little wings like them
26:13 and their kick is much more deadly and
26:15 powerful than that of a terror bird the
26:18 sickle claw of a fenda alus is 13 in or
26:21 33 cm long and is capable of slicing
26:22 open the throat of even large animals
26:24 like moose or step bison who will use
26:26 their wide wings and tail feathers to
26:28 balance themselves while they strike for
26:30 forward with one leg their heads are
26:31 proportionately a bit smaller due to
26:33 them not really using it as their
26:35 primary weapon though their bite force
26:37 is still on par with hyenas like their
26:39 ancestors once humans crossed over the
26:41 bearing straight and ventured down into
26:43 the modern United States it wasn't long
26:44 before these towering Raptors were
26:47 hunted to Extinction the falus and their
26:49 eggs were targeted by humans as they
26:50 like many other animals had almost no
26:53 defenses against thrown projectiles they
26:55 went extinct long before European
26:57 settlers would arrive with many other
26:59 Ice Age animals
27:02 Winter Wonderland the Neo Raptor Leni
27:04 whose name means the snow rptor or the
27:07 leming hog for short Neo Raptors are
27:09 quite small descendants of danicus that
27:11 inhabit the very far north of North
27:13 America reaching even into the North
27:15 Pole they grow no larger than most house
27:17 cats coming in at an average length of
27:20 32 in long or 80 cm from head to tail
27:23 and weighing 10 lb or 4.5 kg
27:25 unfortunately this decision to become
27:27 smaller leaves them vulnerable to many
27:30 predators like wolves Bears owls and so
27:32 on Neo Raptor most common pre items are
27:35 Lemmings in a similar fashion to foxes
27:37 Neo Raptors walk along the surface of
27:39 the snow feeling for vibrations to hone
27:41 on the location of the lemming they then
27:42 pounce on them killing them with a
27:44 single bite while lemings are their
27:47 preferred prey they also hunt squirrels
27:49 weasels birds wild hairs and
27:51 occasionally larger animals like foxes
27:52 and beavers they can sometimes
27:54 accomplish hunting these bigger animals
27:57 because they live in families NE Raptors
27:59 whoose one m for life it will raise up
28:02 to five young into adulthood per year
28:03 much like Lemmings they will build and
28:05 tunnel through deep snow for this they
28:07 have very short stubby legs with wide
28:09 feet that act like snowshoes they use
28:11 their claws like shovels to push snow
28:13 out of the way and even smack the top of
28:15 their tunnels with their heads to pack
28:17 the snow and improve structural
28:19 stability these tunnels typically have
28:21 three rooms one small room that acts as
28:23 a storage for meat or any cool rocks or
28:26 branches the Neo Raptor decides to keep
28:28 another room for the Neo Raptor's nests
28:30 this room is later used as a nursery for
28:32 the hatchlings while they grow and then
28:34 there's the main Den where the mating
28:35 pair of Neo Raptors will cuddle and
28:37 sleep together [Music]
28:39 [Music]
28:41 in when humans crossed the bearing
28:43 straight they took note of the Neo
28:45 Raptor's remarkable hunting skills and
28:47 began to befriend them by offering bits
28:49 of cooked meat which the Raptors would
28:52 store in their dens slowly Neo Raptors
28:54 build their dens closer and closer to
28:56 human settlements until eventually they
28:58 pretty much become domesticated hunting
28:59 small game for humans in return for
29:01 treats and shelter thousands of years
29:03 later when European settlers arrived
29:06 they too found the Neo Raptors useful
29:08 and it wasn't long before a bustling pet
29:10 trade of Nea Raptors emerged to this day
29:12 they still inhabit areas like northern
29:14 Alaska Canada Greenland and are even
29:16 becoming a problem in
29:18 Siberia thank you guys once again for
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